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Community food security is achieved when everyone in a community has access to food in sufficient quantity and quality, obtained from non-emergency sources, that has been produced in a way that respects people and the environment. A Community Food Security approach focuses on developing a community's capacity to meet its own needs.
Action Communiterre is working to build community food security in NDG and the greater Montreal area through:
Food Distribution
Community Collaboration
The NDG Coalition for Food Security
Participation in Nourrir Montréal’s urban agriculture working group of the Conseil Régional des Élus
Partnership in the Regroupement des jardins collectifs du Québec
Organizing and participating in events like Seedy Sunday
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THE VICTORY GARDEN NETWORK: More than food grows in a garden
During the Second World War, Canada faced a food crisis with farmer's harvests sent to feed the troops overseas. Canadians were encouraged to "Plant a Victory Garden to win the war". Thousands took up the challenge, plowing flowerbeds and vacant lots to grow their own vegetables.
In NDG we still remember the Victory garden plots that were once plentiful in our community. Action Communiterre’s Victory Garden Network gives that past spirit of and local solidarity and self-sufficiency a new life. Today, the struggle is against poverty and social isolation, with gardens as our tool for change. Through the Victory Garden Network, we work with residents, community groups, social services and local schools to build neighborhood solidarity and community food security. We use collective gardening to bring people together, develop skills and confidence, green our city, and make high quality organic food accessible for everyone.
Click on the icons in the map to get more information about the gardens!
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When people get together and share the work in a collective garden, they actively contribute to building a sustainable, community-based food system. Through redistribution efforts, this contribution leads to increased access to organic food through emergency food resources like the NDG Food Depot, as well as innovative food projects like collective kitchens, nutrition programs, canning workshops and Meals on Wheels services.
The NDG Food Depot
The NDG Food Depot has been servicing the NDG community since 1986 and has become one of the major players in the food security network in the area. Working together with schools and other organizations in the NDG community, our objectives are to improve the access to healthy and affordable food for those living on low incomes by distributing free emergency food baskets and other resources. We also help users deal with the issues surrounding and contributing to poverty by providing pamphlets and contacts with other groups offering services that are pertinent to food bank users, and by sensitizing the public to the poverty and hunger that exists though public presentations, visits to schools and articles in the media.
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